'Shepherds' in the Bible

In the same region, shepherds were staying out in the fields and keeping watch at night over their flock.

When the angels had left them and returned to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go straight to Bethlehem and see what has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”

and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them.

The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had seen and heard, just as they had been told.

Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?